Books and Bytes:A UWF Libraries Weblog

UWF Library Digital & Learning Technology

Weblog Placement on Site

Click on title link to view blog.

Click on RSS buttons to subscribe to either the content or all comments.

Main Navigation Areas

Blog interactive monthly calendar

Click to previous months

Calendar Usage

For date by date posts, click on the shadowed dates to see entries in November.

Blogroll Entries

Blogroll entries link to Library Web pages.

Quad topics: About, Research, Find, and Services are represented.

Categories

Categories link to posts relating to specific topics.

Visible on the right as a list and under each post as tags

Archival Categories

If you click on Special Collections as a Category, blog entries with the tag Special Collections are provided as archives.

Social Bookmarking Links

Social Bookmarking Links at the end of each post for convenience.

Social Bookmarks

Del.icio.us

Technorati

BloglinesBlinkBits

Stumble Upon

RSS Syndication

RSS Feeds:

Universal symbol for RSS, four common feed aggregators, and Help.

What is a feed?

A feed is a standardized format that allows you to subscribe to the content with an aggregator.

Why Care About Feeds?

Time and convenience. Read updates from all of your favorite Web sites from one Web page.

How to Subscribe?

Use one of the top four aggregators, or even Microsoft IE7. Web-based for convenience, many also have search engines.

Bloglines Aggregator

Bloglines is one of the news readers you can easily set up to subscribe to the library blog.

Bloglines Aggregator

www.bloglines.com Click register to begin.

Bloglines Aggregator

Copy the blog url in the box and click subscribe.

Bloglines Aggregator

How to View a Comment

To View a comment, click on the Comment link under any blog entry.

How to Post a Comment

To post, click on the same area or No Comments

To post, complete all required entries and Click on Submit Comment.

Search Blog

Type keywords in search box and click search.

Future Template Possibilities

•Pages

•Categories

•Flickr Photostream

•RSS Syndication

•Site search engine located in header

Other Possibilities

•Categories

•Blogroll

•RSS Syndication

•Meta

•Site search engine locate in header

2008 Books and Bytes Design

•A smart 2-column, blue and gray theme

•Closest to University of West Florida Templates

•Has Sidebar Arrangement where you can drag and drop widgets

Excellent Feature Rich Possibilities

•Calendar

•Blogroll

•Categories

•Site search engine

•RSS Syndication

•Archives

Submitting Content

3 – 5 paragraphs either in an email or a word document

An image A link to where you obtained the image Send via email to Stephen or Ray

Thank You!

Questions?

XML, RSS, and Atom?

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, and Atom are eXtended Markup Languages.